Midterm 1 Flashcards
A Furniture leg used during the Directoire period that is tapered and splayed outwards.
a) Fluted
b) Reeded
c) Gondola
d) Splayed
Splayed
It is a psyche glass or mirror designed to stand against the wall.
a) Sevres Glass
b) Pier Glass
c) Savonerrie Glass
d) Aubusson Glass
Pier Glass
Early Rococo, He set the tone for rococo painting. He had a great influence on later painters, including Boucher and Fragonard, two masters of the late period.
a) Chardin
b) Watteau
c) Falconet
d) Bouchardon
Watteau
The French Empire Style is also known as
a) Consulate Style
b) Style Etrusque
C Napoleonic Style
d) Classic style
Napoleonic Style
This is a very popular decorating
style when the bourgeois middle class of merchants, craftsmen and professionals began to emerge in the 17th and 18th century in the French countryside.
a) French Directoire
b) French Empire
c) French Provincial
d) French Biedermeier
French Provincial
An interior in Paris showing a forecourt of oval shape, with services fitted around it at the front and side, and with the curved façade of the house proper at the rear during the French Rococo period.
a) Hotel Amelot
b) Hotel Varengeville
c) Hotel Soubisse
d) Hotel Roquelaure
Hotel Amelot
This is a popular softer color during the empire style.
a) Blue
b) Green
c) Red
d) Lilac
Lilac
What period style interior: A circle of painted sky is revealed at the top of the faux tent. Gilt-wood poles hold up the lushly draped red silk “tent”. The poles lead the eye up to a frieze with gold motifs in abstract loops, spirals, and circles on red ground.
a) French Rococo
b) French Empire
c) French Provincial
d) French Biedermeier
French Empire
A period style showing strong colors was prevalent in interiors introduced when the French gentry returned from their military sessions in Egypt. The Egyptian tombs that they had seen and their use of vibrant colors inspired them.
a) French Directoire
b) French Rococo
C French Empire
d) French Provincial
French Empire
Louis XV is ______ while Louis XVI corresponds to _____
a) Rococo; Neoclassic respectively
b) Regence; Rococo respectively
c) Regence; Neoclassic respectively
d) Neoclassic; Empire respectively
Rococo; Neoclassic respectively
This is a popular color scheme used in French Directoire interiors.
a) Achromatic
b) Monochromatic
c) Complementary
d) Di-chromatic
Monochromatic
A technique involving painting on the reverse side of the glass and then applying gold and silver as backing during the French Neoclassic era.
a) Ormulo mounts
b) Scagliola
c) Fresco
d) Verre eglomise
Verre eglomise
What art period happened after the mid-18th century when there was a desire for a quiet informa dignity in the arts; thus, a return to the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome?
a) French Rococo
b) French Neoclassic
c) French Empire
d) French Provincial
French Neoclassic
What period style was influenced by
discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii gave architects models to follow in a return to noble, restrained buildings, while very little was known of classical painting.
a) French Rococo
b) French Neoclassic
c) French Empire
d) French Provincial
French Neoclassic
It is theorized that color was also responsible for Napoleon’s death having seen in the
wallpapers inside the interiors.
a) Empire red
b) Empire green
c) Scheele’s green
d) Scheeles red
Scheele’s green
What period did the gently S-curved leg shape called Cabriole come into use?
a) French Directoire
b) French Neoclassic
c) French Regency
d) French Rococo
French Rococo
It is considered one of the masterpieces of the rococo era and is Fragonard’s best-known work.
a) The swing
b) Marquise de Pompadour
c) Diana leaving her bath
d) The Stolen Kiss
The Swing
A romanticism painting showing the dying survivors of a contemporary shipwreck.
a) Raft of Medusa
b) Liberty Leading the People
c) Riderless Racers
d) Charging Chasseur
Raft of Medusa
Louis XIV reigned for 72 years while Louis XV reigned for years.
a) 56
b) 59
c) 49
d) 46
59
This is a furniture arm support used during the French Directoire that shows a small column.
a) Balustrade
b) Baluster
c) Colonette
d) Colonade
Colonette
The style took its name from a cartoon sèries that made a joke of the habits of the bourgeois that tended to follow fashions set by
French stylistic trends—particularly the Empire style.
a) German Provincial
b) German Biedermeier
c) French Provincial
d) French Biedermeier
German Biedermeier
A French rococo guild system for furniture that is responsible for solid wood furniture making.
a) Fondeur
b) Ciseleur
c) Menuisier
d) Ebeniste
Menuisier
An ornamentation which is a set of rods bound in the form of a bundle containing an axe.
à) Fasces
b) Phrygian
c) Quiver
d) Clasped hands
Fasces
This type of lacquer was introduced
as a furniture finish
during the Rococo period.
a) Gesso
b) Japanning
c) Chinese Lacquer
d) Vernis Martin
Chinese lacquer
These are French empire ornaments except for one which is:
a) Shields
b) Arrows
c) Quivers
d) Fasces
Fasces
A French provincial furniture which is a cupboard for keeping bread.
a) Boite a Sel
b) Vaisellier
c) Panetiere
d) Garde Manger
Panetiere
In Neoclassic Fashion: It consisted of a pelisse edged with ermine,
opening over an undergown and petticoat.
a) The Levantine
b) A La Turque
c) A La Levite
d) A La Circassienne
The Levantine
These are German Biedermeier characteristics except. for one which is:
a) the use of gold-highlighted crosshatching for the coved transition to the ceiling
b) A mixture of the very simple farmhouse or rustic type of furniture used by the peasants & the bourgeois furniture of the middle class
c) The furniture is both better suited to the ambiance of a country residence and more affordable as well
d) Finishes are less showy, avoiding the high gloss, high maintenance French polishes used in the court styles
a) the use of gold-highlighted crosshatching for the coved transition to the ceiling
He is a rococo Sculptor.
a) Antonio Canova
b) Edme Boucher
C) Etienne Falconet
d) Jean Fragonard
C) Etienne Falconet
A French furniture maker and sculptor said that the Rococo style was created for women.
a) George Jacob
b) Charles Cressent
c) Jean Meissonier
d) Henri Riesener
b) Charles Cressent